Pinging the list.
Finally getting some cherry tomatoes! Only had room for three plants as my whole yard is shaded. Refrigerator pickled a lot of green ones! The one plants cherry tomatoes are as big as golf balls, and delicious!
Picked the majority of the pears. They are really juicy this year. May have to make a pie or pear preserve.
Our August “heat wave hit 100 one day; and mid 90s less than a week. Today, barely made it to 80, and is already back to 68.
So far, about 160 pounds of cleaned rye. At 175 pounds (finish filling the current bucket) we’ll quit. I’m thinking there’s about a total of 200-225 pounds, or about 4 bushels, total produced. What is still left on the stalks will get gathered with the straw, and the chickens can have at it when I use it for their bedding this winter.
Harvested the last of the garlic, and we’re really pleased with it. Also harvested the first of our onions; reds won the race
Last night for dinner we had hot pastrami sandwiches, using my homemade pastrami, and a loaf of rye bread I baked the night before; it also had some of our purple onions, sauteed with green pepper on it. No; not our pepper; they are a bust yet again.
The corn is looking really good, and is all short enough season that it should ripen, despite the cool weather.
Side note, while working in the rye patch today, two mommas brought their broods down to also forage; we were beginning to think we weren’t going to see any baby turkeys this year. Definitely remembered us feeding them, because they had no problem with bringing their young within 15-20 feet of us without exhibiting nervousness.
They had a really nasty time of it this past winter and so-called spring, to the point that the Black Hills turkey season has basically been cancelled.
Really. I wouldn't fib about that.
My garden, it looks like the epicenter of Hiroshima.... but that's Texas.
Root knot nematodes turned out to only affect about 10 square meters of the garden.
I don't know perzactly what to do about that, except the plastic smother, cover, and bake to 150F.
Peanuts, of course, are doing well.
Fall peppers and tobacco in the ground.
/johnny